Whilst forest certification in the 1990s originally set out to improve forest management in tropical countries, twenty years later only one percent of the global supply of wood from certified forests…Continue
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Thorsten Arndt posted a blog post
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Thorsten Arndt posted a blog postWhat promised to be a confrontational debate about forest certification between two global leaders of different schemes failed to materialise during an otherwise lively session at the Forest Industry Development Conference presented by ForestWorks in Melbourne, Australia, at the beginning of September.
Note that this is the republication of an article that originally appeared in Timber & Forestry e-news, Source: Issue No. 142 (Republished with…
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Carbon stocks are stable or increasing in sustainably managed and certified production forests, a recent FAO report suggests.
"The effectiveness of sustainable forest management practices in maintaining carbon stocks in production forests is clear from experiences in North America and the EU. These regions contain most of the world's certified forests and have generally stable or increasing…
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